inuimari
As a Japanese guy (well this is my opinion only), I really don't care. Most Japanese people won't care either.
How is this any different to the Grudge? I'll admit that it's pretty weird that the protagonist will find so many people that speak fluent English-speaker in Japan.
then why do people or mainly Japanese people hate Airbender? Since the characters look white or half white
HAHA yeah a lot of Japanese dont speak English so!
VariaIronhawk
The sister is living and working in Tokyo, soooooo, it really is not such a stretch. See, when you don't know the story, it's easy to criticize.
True but not in upper education
inuimari
This " LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY " can F Off.
Just got banned from his site cuz I told a girl not to be so judgmental. He basically said that a lot of Asian parents beat their kid. Some posters said that that is abuse and they recanted how abusive their parents were. And this one chick went on dissing all those people who were saying it was abuse. I told her not to be so judgmental and then I got banned. I wasn't even using a swear word. And some of the posters were saying that people who are saying that spanking their kids is abuse where pu&&y white people. SMH.
He's okay with child abuse but is now complaining about mental health among Asians? WTF, man. Total hypocrite. According to this ridiculous site, "tone policing" is a real thing and it's bad. What the.... There's nothing wrong with being nice to people online and your assumed minority status (as in people assuming they are in a more disadvantaged class than those they are speaking to) does not make it okay for people to be a b1tch online.
yeah some chinese and Japanese can be anal about that
Kumagoro
The guy quoted in the original post is totally off base.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan is indeed bad, even beyond whitewashing, because it's a white man posing as Asian.
How many chinese actors were in the biz at that time?
Phoenix_07
Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell is NOT whitewashing, because she WON'T play Motoko Kusanagi in "yellowface" (or whatever it's called), she'll play a reworked character with a different name for the American version of the same story, just like Naomi Watts in The Ring. Remember when Kurosawa used to set Western literature in Japan using Japanese actors? Was that out of racism?
Whitewashing goes more into just putting someone in yellowface. Taking a Japanese movie and remaking it with White actors is pretty much whitewashing. Why is that necessary? Why can't Americans just watch something in its original form? Why is there a need for an 'American version'? Look at just about every remake of a Japanese/Asian movie. Do they have other races casted as the lead, or even have a role? Why was The Grudge even remade when it's also set in Japan with the same story?
Yet the Japanese worship whites all the time
why is it with Ernie Hudson who played one of the title characters never go back lash but the main character Justin got all of it?
Why do Japanese draw there characters white looking?
stephenmonachello
First off, Genghis Kahn played by John Wayne and Scarlet Johansson playing Major Motoko Kusanagi in "Ghost in the Shell are examples of "White Washing" as they are whites playing Asian characters just like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
for gods sake they white wash the characters in Dragonball z and airbender Chinese and Japanese people dont have round eyes and wavy hair
This film is not an example. This about an American going to find their twin in a legendary suicide forest in Japan. This is not white washing. This is just someone wanting a bigger story about a horror film. According to you this could not happen, but it could only happen to someone of Japanese decent. This is just another example of people wanting to complain about something or everything.
but again why would all the japanese be speaking english and be more aggressive or more loud as the case may be
Space_Wolf57
No actual Japanese person would give a sh!t about this. Chances are the writer is a "whitewashed" Asian himself.
well which racial group cares about Dragonball Z Airbender the last avatar
to me it seems its always the Koreans no other oriental group cares so much
skane110-1
Have you ever heard of "The Last Samurai"? That is way worse than this. I mean, the Samurai are such a hugely important and sacred thing to the Japanese and they are legendary so, to have a white guy play the last samurai is so completely wrong and offensive.
Oh how is it offensive?
the book Young Samurai and Shogun are based off a white guy who got ship wrecked in Japan
Will Adams
http://www.hsv.com/writers/jeffog/wa-hist.htmhttps://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&espv=2&q=Miura+Anjin&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecTozC3w8sc9YSmrSWtOXmM04eIKzsgvd80rySypFFLjYoOyZLh4pTj1c_UNDFMsTTI0GKS4uRBcHgBRAQsESAAAAA&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCvKHqp_bLAhUBOCYKHQuYAEAQ6RMIgwEwEg&biw=1745&bih=828google
Shogun Movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080274/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trvSo no the last samurai is not white washed its factual get your facts straight
litcity
Artists are allowed to do whatever they want. Anything else would be censorship. White person wants to make movie about Indian culture, so what? Asian person wants to make a movie about black culture, so what? Art is about empathy. Can't think of a better way to achieve empathy than attempt to walk in someone else's shoes. Now, if they do a bad job of it, that's on the individual artist and it should never be used as an excuse to attempt to censor other artists.
Cultural marxists and those who have fallen for the toxic isolationism of "identity politics" need to get their heads out of their rear-ends and join the human race.
True but wouldnt you want to get some of it correct?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syhFQBL-Yaothis is scotts review of the film. I trust him since he has made a life in Japan and he is Japanese
Kinda the same story like William Adams
Noelitede
I do think it's *beep* up to pick a real social issue and make a horror film about it. I'm also kind of fed up of all this movies starring white actors unnecesarily, when the movie is set in Asia like The forbidden kingdom, The last samurai , The grudge (this last one is ridiculous, especially considering it's set in Japan as the original) but let's face it: they do that to make more people (mainly Americans) want to watch the movie, since they would probably not relate with the characters if they are from another ethnic background. I've never understood the logic of that, since having the characters being exactly like me is not something important for me, but that's how it works for some people anyway. But we cannot accuse this of whitewashing, since whitewashing is having white people playing as a non-white character. In this case it's white people representing white people. Also, we cannot accuse this of not taking on account mental illnesses on Asian people or thinking Asians are all wealthy and 100% mentally stable. Making fun of suicide in East Asians would be ignoring that, but it's not the case.
Trying to make a horror out of something that is real and is not OK is the main "crime" of this movie, in my opinion. It's going to be another forgotten horror movie anyway.
oh why? Japan would love to have white actors in Japanese roles since in Japan and china thats more excotic
Noelitede
What I mean is that this looks like the typical case of Hollywood taking advantage of something to profit from it without considering anything. Like "Yo, everyone on the internet is knowing about the suicide forest in Japan, how about we make a movie about it?". And of course, instead of making a drama that could make people think about the topic like Don't cry mommy did with the increasing rape rate in South Korea, they just made a horror to entertain, taking advantage of this issue.
isnt that the case for everything?
think of all the stuff we see in entertainment! all the owls hawks sound effects and in reality Birds of prey make no sound when there coming towards you. NONE
ElChompiras
You think Japan has it hard? Try living in Mexico. I know as I am.
well what Mexico like?
jajceboy
It's whitewashing only if it's an Asian character played by an white American actress. But there's no indication the character is Asian or Japanese, it seems that she in fact is an American. So what's the deal?
I am shocked that you seem to think Japan is only inhibited by Japanese and Asians, and therefore only them should be portrayed. A lot of Westerners live and work in Japan, and a lot of them are white or non-Asian. Frankly it makes more sense to make films about them if you want to sell it to a Western audience.
And it is business. Statistics and documentaries show that a lot of people from all over the world goes to this forest to commit suicide. It's not restricted to Japanese people only.
Honestly, the OP is only looking for reasons to feel offended to have something to moan about.
its surprising how people are still igonrant about Japan its like Oh no whites black indian korean Chinese jewish white japanese jews etc etc
inuimari
Sounds like there are 16 countries ahead of you that got a bigger problem, get over yourself and go grope a schoolgirl on a train or jerk off to some tentacles doing it.
Remember, after WW2 japs only still exist because of our mercy. Personally, i think they all should have been vaporized.
Shut your mouth or maybe we will have to look in to opening up the camps again.
Just lol, just lol. The amount of stupid people you come across online is staggering!
very much so
some not all Japanese are bigoted too one woman wanted to round up all the non Japanese people and put them on an Island its like WTF!
basically meaning all the whites
wburchnall
Lastly, being in a foreign country, can lead to the feeling of isolation, depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. There's a term coined for this called 'Culture Shock' which is a well known phenomena. Being in a foreign country, miles away from home, out of touch with nobody to turn to is part of what is intended to make this movie 'creepy' and 'disturbing'. As someone that has traveled to foreign countries, including Japan, it can be slightly unnerving to be unable to speak a local language and 1,000 miles away or more from any friends or family as opposed to traveling in your same province or state knowing your family is at most a phone call and a few hours away.
I wonder how many 'white' people in Japan complain that Japanese companies aren't making enough Japanese movies with white people in them and giving white actors a chance. I bet it's VERY few
did you go through that? I think not alot since they cant talk about Depression in Japan
habakuktwofour
Silly rabbit do you expect anything less from white people but to perpetrate, encroach on and decimate other peoples cultures?
Other countries have done there fair share
Look like Tarzan talk like Jane! HAHA
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